Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Bodhi Linux ARM Alpha Release for RaspBerry Pi

I've been busy with lots of different Bodhi things of the late. The latest of my many projects has been getting the Bodhi desktop functional on the RaspBerry Pi:

This first release while having some rough edges does give you a fully functional Enlightenment desktop on top of a Debian Wheezy ARMEL base. I am providing two different downloads which you can find on our source forge page here. The first is an easy to use .img file that can be written to 4GB or larger SD card.

If you dislike .img files I've also provided tar files that contain the boot partition (which should be written to a vfat partition at the start of an SD card) and the root file system (which should be written to the second partition on a card that is extX).

I too have the same problem with the networking not picking up - the interfaces file does have the eth set at 0 instead of one but it is not letting me save the file after I edit it. Any suggestions please?

A quick question for any Bodhi developers, why did you base your version on the Debian Armel port of Wheezy when you could have used the Raspbian Wheezy hard float version. The benefit being that you usethe hard float capabilities of the Pi hardware. This would provide a better user experience for the distribution.

ok y'all same eth1 not eth0 issue which was sorted as above Rasp Mod Bafter a reboot had a couple of other issues.running sudo ... I get an unable to resolve host raspberry-pi but gonna look in to this a bit more before posting a support request.

Some previous versions of the initial Raspberry Pi had this network issue due to the original Debian squeeze version being incorrectly set to Eth1 by default. Possibly some cards have been overwritten?This has I believe been resolved in the second production but I think it still may depend on whether the Debian is Squeeze or Wheezy. Whatever the problem , it isn't a Bodhi issue, but a Paspberry Pi issue.Just thought I should clear that up.

Good work with this pi port. I've just tried it and I have to say that it's the most usable graphic environment I've tried yet. I'm guessing that's down to the mature nature of Enlightenment and EFL? Whatever it is, I'm a fan so far!

I'm told it's down to E being developed with speed and efficiency in mind from day one.Bodhi certainly works really well on our Genesi ARM box (the size of a DVD case), hitting a 32" TV with elegant 720P. Can't wait for our RasPis to arrive

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